Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) lopatini G.S. Medvedev, 1970

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2023, Review of the subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952, the genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Zootaxa 5375 (4), pp. 550-564 : 557

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scientific name	Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) lopatini G.S. Medvedev, 1970
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Medvedev 1970: 406 ( Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola )); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 66, fig. 28 ( Colposcelis ).

Type material. Holotype, ♂ and paratypes, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: “V. Turkmenia Kelif G. Medvedev 19.IV.68.” (Cyrillic label, handwritten by G.S. Medvedev). Holotype and paratypes are also provided with labels “ Holotypus Colposcelis lopatini G. Medv. ” and “ Paratypus Colposcelis lopatini G. Medv. ” respectively.

Distribution. The species is known only from the south of Kugitang Mts. in Turkmenistan.

References

Medvedev, G. S. (1970) New species of tenebrionids (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) from arid regions the USSR and Afghanistan. Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 49 (2), 393 - 408. [in Russian]

Medvedev, G. S. & Nepesova, M. G. (1985) Key to darkling beetles of Turkmenistan. Ylym, Ashkhabad, 180 pp. [in Russian]

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FIGURE 7. Colposcelis lopatini, habitus, details of structure and labels. A = holotype, ♂, habitus dorsally; B = paratype, ♀, habitus dorsally; C = the other paratype, ♀, habitus ventrally; D = labels of the holotype; E = sculpture of mesoventrite, ♀; F = head and pronotum, ♀, dorsally.

FIGURE 8. Colposcelis lopatini, details of structure.A = apical antennomeres, ♀; B = tegmen of aedeagus; C = median lobe of aedeagus; D = spiculum gastrale; E = male inner sternite VIII; F = ovipositor ventrally.